Policy Analysis

The Identity Project participates actively in U.S. and European Union regulatory and policy development proceedings through policy analysis, research, written comments, white papers, and testimony on proposed rules and regulatory notices. We monitor ID-related regulatory filings in the Federal Register and E.U. notices, but we also welcome your tips on upcoming or pending regulations we may not have noticed. Following are some of our testimony, comments, and other submissions in rulemakings related to ID requirements and identity-based surveillance and control of movement.

White Papers and Research Reports

Proposed Agenda on the Right to Travel (Submitted to the House Committee on Homeland Security Roundtable: “A Path Forward: Constitutional Protections in Homeland Security”, Washington, DC, December 3, 2008) (PDF)

Government Surveillance of Travelers (slides and video from a presentation by Edward Hasbrouck of the Identity Project at the Cato Institute and on C-SPAN, April 2, 2013; includes annotated examples of records from the DHS Automated Targeting System)